PPL Shipyard terminates three jack-up contracts

OCTOBER 4, 2017 — Sembcorp Marine reports that wholly-owned subsidiary, PPL Shipyard Pte Ltd has terminated three contracts with Mexico’s Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and its subsidiary Oro

VIDEO: DONG Energy changes its name to Ørsted

OCTOBER 2, 2017 — From November 6, Denmark’s DONG Energy, the world leader in deploying offshore wind facilities, is changing its name to Ørsted. “DONG was originally short for Danish Oil and

Innovation in well work over gets ABS approval

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 — A cantilever system developed by Abu Dhabi based Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has received ABS design approval and certification. Installed on the self-elevating support vessel (SESV) GMS Evolution,

Transocean to retire six floaters, take $1.4 billion hit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 — Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) says it intends to retire the ultra-deepwater floaters GSF Jack Ryan, Sedco Energy, Sedco Express, Cajun Express, and Deepwater Pathfinder, and the deepwater floater Transocean

MAN variable speed gensets picked for Louis Dreyfus WSOV

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 — Turkish shipyard Cemre Marin Endüstri A.Ş, has ordered four MAN 8L21/31 variable speed gensets for the wind service operation vessel (WSOV) that it is building for France’s Louis

ABS review advances UMaine floating offshore wind concept

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 — ABS, has completed the design review of the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) documentation for the VolturnUS floating offshore wind turbine concept developed by the University of

Seadrill files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 — Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Limited has today filed prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas together with an agreed restructuring plan. As part of the

DOE releases update on energy sector impacts of Harvey and Irma

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Energy today released a new event summary on the impacts of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Widespread electrical outages continue, but more refineries are

Wärtsilä inks cooperation agreement with wave energy leader

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 — Wärtsilä has signed a cooperation agreement Finnish-based AW-Energy covering sales and delivery of WaveRoller, a wave energy technology developed by AW-Energy, on a turn-key basis across the life-cycle.

DONG Energy to build world’s largest offshore wind farm

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017— Within days of completing the dismantling of the world’s first offshore wind farm, Denmark’s DONG Energy has been awarded a contract to build what will be the world’s largest:

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